Suicide ?!?

The news of the loss of Robin Williams is saddening. I however can't help feeling that it is the shared delusion of a better place to go that was likely the cause. This is not a new idea as suicide to speed along the journey to "heaven" that caused the church to announce that it was a sin. Those who say religion isn't harmful if practiced alone I believe are mistaken or have never lost a loved one who was alone with their ideas of a better place. Maybe this idea is ill timed, but I have seen many instances where life was lost due to someone hoping for the promised land because their ideas were allowed to manifest unchallenged.

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@k.h.....All I can say is, things have really gone down hill since I retired from full time in 2003.....When I was employed full time I had fabulous insurance that was quite affordable,premiums were partially subsidized by the employer, and the copay was minimal....However, after I had a stroke, I went part time and my insurance reflected that.....Luckily I stayed healthy until I was eligible for Medicare....As soon as my first physical was given, they discovered I had cancer of the prostate, The surgical procedure was covered by Medicare plus my supplemental plan.....I guess I have been fortunate when it comes to insurance....I deeply saddened on how bad it is for employees now......Obama promised that the ACA will improve our health care, lets hope he is right...

That "best insurance" you refer to is called Tricare. Some of the initial upset about the ACA was that members of congress would now have to buy their own insurance and this would no longer be free like before. The GOP was very upset about that. There was some measure to make them "exempt" but I'm not sure how well that went over. How could you have a national insurance plan that didn't affect everybody? Tricare, about the best insurance you can get, was originally set up for the military.

The military, their families, and some ex-military will continue to get Tricare.

So they cut congress off Michael? If that's true it's probably the best political news I've heard all year.

Now if taxpayer's could just get ex presidents to pay their own damn living expenses.
I only learned recently that we support them forever. Right down to buying their damned furniture and paying their phone bills.

Some of my relatives use TriCare as retired military. A problem is that there aren't enough VA hospitals around. In fact as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan picked up congress was cutting funding to VA hospitals. It's tragic.

There should be a link for them to use local doctors and medical facilities so they don't have to drive 3+ hours one way to go to a qualified member doctor, or hospital.

I am researching a suicide for a writing project. I am convinced that people who go through it are as different as each one is human; no two are alike. I am also convinced that there is a sequence of events in life that render it, in some cases -- Hemingway's, for example -- truly meaningless and thus not really worth living. But the main conclusion I have reached is that in some cases at least, a cluster of intricately interrelated "reasons" coalesce to form a driving wish to pull the plug. My subject was like that. One could tick off a dozen reasons, really.

Hi James.......My opinion is if someone truly wants to end their life, and that person is an adult, then we should respect their decision......Not much we can do anyway if the person is determined...With that said , when the person in question is well known to many, such as Robin Williams, it is indeed a very sad occurrence.... He was so admired and loved...No one seemed to know just how sad and depressed he was....A great loss indeed....